Gerald Murnane has been awarded an AO. For 13 reviews of his remarkable oeuvre, see anzlitlovers.com/category/wri...
I'm reading Stephen Orr's latest novel, The Night Parrots. It's going to be my Book of the Year. It might even be my Book of the Decade...
A genre-bending blend of fiction and memoir, exploring the man behind the art works of John Brack: anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/04/t...
My first book for #20 Books of Winter: anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/03/e...
Playing #6Degrees, I discovered that the original German title of Stefan Zweig's The Post-office Girl is much more interesting than the unimaginative English one:
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It's impossible to do Stephen Orr's new novel justice, it's just magnificent. anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/10/t...
What did Henry Lawson get up to in 1892? Wayne Marshall's new novel is a wild ride!
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Just read Jan Carson's 3rd novel Few and Far Between. She gets better and better with every book! anzlitlovers.com/2026/05/28/f...
Pulse by Cynan Jones — nature in the raw
Pulse is another lean, intense work of fiction by Welsh author Cynan Jones. This is a collection of short stories deeply rooted in the rural life Jones knows so well — he was born in a traditional farming community in West Wales and worked on the land…
This month’s starter book for #6Degrees hosted by Kate at Books are My Favourite and Best is The Post-office Girl by Stefan Zweig (1881-1942). Not knowing that it was published posthumously in 198…
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Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941 was technically an Australian since she was born in Kirribilli, Sydney, but the family moved to England when she was three, so she was really more British than Austra…
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Books about ‘daddy issues’ and post-mortem ‘tell-all’ memoirs by resentful offspring of the famous are not my usual reading fare, because they seem usually to be ghost writt…
Deliciously macabre, The Thornbacks is the debut novel of Melbourne-based award-winning author and poet Chloe Wilson. This is the book description that beguiled me into reading it: Deliciously uns…
South Australian Stephen Orr is the author of many outstanding novels so it’s hard to be objective, but I think that he has surpassed himself with his latest novel The Night Parrots. His mag…
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To borrow a word from Kim from Reading Matters, Wayne Marshall’s debut novel Henry Goes Bush is bonkers. It is also immensely entertaining. The novel links the Australian tradition of ‘…
Jan Carson! What a brilliant author and what a stunning creation is her new novel Few and Far Between. For the past few days I have been totally absorbed by this counterfactual story of a utopia t…
Pulse is another lean, intense work of fiction by Welsh author Cynan Jones. This is a collection of short stories deeply rooted in the rural life Jones knows so well — he was born in a traditional farming community in West Wales and worked on the land before becoming a writer. The world of Pulse is very similar to that depicted in his short novels, …
